These sweet potato pizza bites are my new favorite way to enjoy pizza! They are vegan, gluten free, easy to assemble, super versatile, and make a great appetizer for a crowd or an easy dinner for two! There is nothing better than vegetables for dinner, especially when those veggies taste like pizza! 🙂
I wanted to quickly share with you guys my recent eats – which include some awesome sweet potato pizza bites that would be the perfect addition to any party spread. These are great because you can either assemble these yourself or lay out the ingredients for guests and let them go to town! I love these little pizza bites because they are awesome at room temperature and therefore awesome for guests, especially once a little champagne starts flowing!
Another great party snack I can’t seem to stop snacking on is protein puppy chow. It’s addicting, pretty healthy, and vegan, so I’m not going to complain! It would also be a quick and easy addition to your party line up, especially around the holidays!
These sweet potato pizza bites deserve some serious attention. If you follow me on instagram (@bites_of_wellness) these guys made their debut last week and I’ve made them twice now. I had so much kale pesto, I just had to make these little bites. I took them to work for lunch, had them for dinner, and shared quite a few with my sister after she came home from a late night at work. I love them every time and I hope you do as well!
If you love pizza, make sure you check out this zucchini crust pizza.
Helpful tips and tricks
- The easiest way to make the sweet potato base is to use a sharp knife and cut 1/8 inch rounds. Go slowly to keep uniform thickness! Make sure that you take the sweet potatoes out of the oven after 15 minutes and flip them over so they get a good crust on both sides.
- You can use orange, purple or white sweet potatoes (Japanese are my favorite) or even regular potatoes to make this recipe!
- You can make the sweet potato rounds up to 3 days in advance. Just store them in a covered container in the refrigerator.
- These can be served hot, at room temperature or even cold! So make extra, they are always great for meal prep or for hungry kiddos after school snacks!
- Use whatever pizza toppings you love! Artichokes, peppers, onions, olives, pepperoni, sausage, sundried tomato, or cheese!
Love sweet potatoes? Try this amazing Spicy Sweet Potato Soup
Sweet Potato Pizza Bites
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes washed and cut into 1/8 inch rounds
- 1/2 - 1 cup kale pesto or pesto of choice
- 1/2 bag frozen artichokes cooked with lemon juice and salt and pepper
- 1/2 jar sun dried tomatoes
- 1-2 roasted red peppers thinly sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Wash the sweet potatoes and carefully cut the potatoes into 1/8 inch rounds. These are thicker than chips would be
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper, and spray with non-stick spray. Lay sweet potatoes in a thin layers, trying to make sure they don't overlap to much
- Once oven is preheated, place sweet potatoes in the oven for 15 minutes. Take out and flip, cook an additional 7-10 minutes..
- Take out of oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack for at least 5 minutes before topping,
- While sweet potatoes are cooking, turn a large skillet on over medium high heat. Spray with non-stick spray and add frozen artichokes, allow to cook 5 minutes. Lower heat to medium and add 1/4 tsp. salt, few cracks of black pepper and the juice of one lemon. Allow to cook an additional 5-10 minutes until reach desired level of browning. Take off heat and cut artichokes down to smaller more bite size pieces.
- Thinly slice roasted red pepper from jar. Place to the side.
- Top sweet potatoes with teaspoon or two of kale pesto, a piece of artichoke, a few sun dried tomatoes, and a few roasted red pepper slices on the sweet potato pizza.
- You can easily make this an assembly line for friends to make their own!
Nutrition
What about you?
- Do you have a favorite party snack?
- Do you sometimes accidentally cook a certain way?
- Have you ever been accidentally vegan or vegetarian?
Kathryn Griffin @TheDedicatedHouse
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Kathleen
Thanks for bringing this collection of creative recipes to the #HomeMattersParty . I love your sweet potato pizza that looks quite a quick treat to make.
Kathleen
Kathryn Griffin @TheDedicatedHouse
These pizza bites look and sound amazing! Thanks for sharing. You are one of the fan favorites at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Here is the link to this week’s party. http://www.thededicatedhouse.com/2015/06/make-it-pretty-monday-week-139.html Hope to see you again at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
Tanya
These look and sound delicious and healthy! I love sweet potatoes. Thank you so much for linking up to Small Victories Sunday Linkup!
Steph
Omg I am definitely making those sweet potato pizza bites- they look absolutely fantastic! Especially that big spread of pesto!! Your polenta dinner topped with ALL the veggies looks absolutely mouth watering too!
Sam
Steph, they are so fun and easy! Enjoy them, I’m sure you will come up with some great combinations of flavors and toppings too! I’m glad someone else appreciates all the veggies as well 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!!
Emily @ Sweets and Beets
That pizza looks sooo good, and the sweet potato bites look even better! I recently had a portobello burger slider with sweet potato rounds as the “buns”.. such a good idea – I need to break out of my sweet potato comfort zone! 🙂 Happy New Year, Sam!
Sam
Yum sweet potato buns sound pretty fantastic! I’m really starting to play with my food this year 🙂 LoL I just made sweet potato rounds as buns for little slider lentil burgers and they were delish 🙂 Happy New Year to you as well my dear!
Joanne
I would happily eat a whole batch of these sweet potato pizza bites for dinner! So fun.
Sam
Joanne, you and me both 🙂 These little guys are so yummy! Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!
Renee Benda
These look amazing and perfect for when I need a pizza fix!
Sam
Renee, I crave pizza daily so I had to get creative – these certainly hit the spot 🙂 Enjoy!
rachel@ atheltic avocado
These look super tasty! Love that you added pesto on them! great healthy recipe!
Sam
Thanks Rachel! Yeah the pesto really helps bring out the pizza flavor and balances out the sweetness of the sweet potato 🙂 Thanks for stopping by Happy New Year!!
Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner
ooh yummy yum right up my alley! You should add these to MM too
Sam
Deborah, awesome idea, I will do that 🙂 Thanks so much for the love! Happy New Year
Lauren @ The Bikini Experiment
Happy New Year, Sam! Congrats on your e-book. Love the mug and this recipe looks totally yum. Have fun tonight. 🙂
Sam
Thanks Lauren!! I can’t wait to see what you enjoyed for WIAW!! Happy New Year!
Susie @ Suzlyfe
Want. All. In my mouth. NOW.
Happy New Year! Now get in the kitchen and make me all of these things!
Sam
Yes ma’am!! No problem – I love cooking this stuff 🙂 Hope you are enjoying your day Susie!! Happy New Year!